MODERN JUSTICE. - HOW TO SELECT BLOCKHEADS. —A DISHONEST BAG- GAGE-MAN. — CHARITY AND MERCY. — AN AFFECTING INCIDENT. — SAVING A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER. - A GENEROUS WOMAN. CURIOUS PHASES OF HUMAN NATURE. — CELT AND AFRICAN. STORIES OF THE DETECTIVES. HOW THE BUSINESS IS PROSECUTED IN NEW YORK. THE NUMBER OF BOR- ROWERS.- THEIR DIVISIONS AND SUBDIVISIONS. -HOW THEY OPERATE. -THE STORIES THEY TELL. THEIR ENERGY. — ABILITY TO READ CHAR- ACTER. SUFFERINGS OF THEIR VICTIMS. FRAUDS UPON HORACE GREE- 979 BREADTH ESCAPE. SHOT, SHELL, STEAM, FIRE, AND WATER. -TWO YEARS AS A CAPTIVE. TUNNELLING. -ITS MODE, MANAGEMENT, AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 1. Phases of Underground Life, FRONTISPIECE. 2. Austin, Nevada; A Western Mining Town, 3. Impressions of Plants found in Coal, 4. Discovery of Anthracite Coal in Pennsylvania, 5. Wire Railway at the Harewood Coal Mine, British Columbia, 51 18. Pearl Diving in the East Indies, . 130 19. Discovery of Loaves of Bread Baked 1800 Years Ago, 20. Bodies of Pompeians Cast in the Ashes, . 21. Railroad from Naples to the Summit of Mt. Vesuvius, 22. Descent of Vesuvius, . 187 188 23. Searching for Relics, 193 24. The Gate of Herculaneum and Street of Tombs,. 197 28. Nero's Gymnasium, 214 29. Dr. and Mrs. Schliemann the Excavators at Mycense (Greece),. 221 30. The Explorations at Mycena-the Treasury of Atreus (entrance), 228 31. Battle of the Warriors, 70. Western Entrance to Hoosac Tunnel, 71. Work at the Heading, 72. Boring machine used in Mount Cenis Tunnel, 73. Side View of Boring Machine, 74. Place De La Concorde, 75. The Madalaine Church, 76. Subterranean Paris, 77. The Great Sewer, . 26 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 82. Mutiny on the Lower Deck, 574 83. 84. The Avondale Disaster-Removing Bodies from the Mine, 586 594 85. Section of the Broadway Underground Railway, 86. Tunneling Broadway for the Underground Railway, 87. Interior of Pneumatic Passenger Car, 88. Portal of the Broadway Tunnel, . 89. The Bomb Ferry-Travel in the 30th Century, 90. The Public Highway-Travel in the 30th Century, 91. Underground Rail Road Station, Aldgate London, Conversationhaus at Baden, 92. 98. 99. Jas. W. Marshall, the Discoverer of Gold in California,. 100. Emigrant Train of Gold Hunters in 1849,. Chinese Gold Mining in California, 101. 107. A Copper Mine of the Lake Superior Region, 108. Interior of a Copper Mine,. 118. Dream of a Diamond Swindler, 119. Descending the Shaft-Wieliczka Salt Mines, 120. Chapel in the Wieliczka Salt Mines, 121. Getting out Salt,. . 671 . 708 UNDERGROUND. I. BELOW THE SURFACE. DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE. - WHAT THE WORLD BELIEVES. — MUNGO PARK IN AFRICA. WHY THE NATIVES PITIED HIM. -EXTENT OF UNDERGROUND LIFE. DISTRIBUTION OF THE EARTH'S WEALTH. VALUE OF MINES. THEIR EXTENT AND IMPORTANCE. COAL AND IRON. MYSTERIES OF MINES.EXPERIENCE WITH A NOVICE. CHANGES OF SEASONS TO A MINER. DANGERS IN MINES. -LIFE IN CAVERNS.- UNDERGROUND IN METAPHOR. — SOCIAL MINING. - OBJECT OF THIS VOLUME. In these days of fast presses, cheap books and newspapers, lightning telegraphs, and other disseminators of intelligence, there may be those who doubt the correctness of the adage which says, "One half the world does not know how the other half lives." Human nature is inquisitive. We are constantly seeking information regarding the affairs of others, and we generally manage in some way to obtain what we seek. We store our minds with useful and useless knowledge of the manners and customs of people in other lands, and of the pri vate lives and histories of our near neighbors. Very often the material we thus lay aside in our mental storehouses does not particularly concern us, but, like Mrs. Toodles, in her purchase of a door-plate bearing the name of Thompson with a p, we think it will be handy to have at some future day, and so we keep it. With a fair devotion to inquiries, and a well-cultivated memory, a life of threescore and ten years ought, at this day, to acquaint its possessor with a general knowledge of the how and why of the existence of at least half the inhabitants of the globe. |